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Drew Gress Bass Workshop at David Gage

The focus of Drew’s workshop will be Bottomlands Architecture: Introducing Shape and Range to the Bassline, WITHOUT Sacrificing Sound … PLUS other issues.

As a New York staple, he is one of the hardest working guys in the business. He has been awarded grants from major arts institutions such as The National Endowment for the Arts and Meet The Composer. And, Jagged Sky and Spin & Drift, album titles that also serve as band names, have both received rave reviews. The New York Times called Jagged Sky, “One of downtown’s most promising bands.” The Village Voice described Spin & Drift as “an intimidating brood whose sundry skills are likely to forge a sense of grand abstraction and disarming cogency. Pregnant with possibility, this is a first-time grouping you hope will sustain itself.”

Workshop Information: David Gage String Instruments and Drew Gress will present this Workshop one night only at David Gage String Instruments, 36 Walker Street, New York, NY. Tickets: $20.00 ($15.00 students and seniors). Mike’s Master Classes will be streaming every minute of this workshop.
Additionally, David Gage has starting to post video clips from the workshops on youtube.com. Clips from Mimi Fox and Harvie S Art of the Duo workshop and Ben Wolfe – Bass Line Construction workshop are already up and available for viewing.

Infringement of Copyright

I’ve just realized that parts of my website are displayed without permission at a korean website. That’s really annoying, but has occassionally happend before.
But what makes me really angry is that this guy uses hotlinks (all the pictures are still loaded from my webserver), and, most barefaced, he publishes my content under Creative Commons: “You are free: to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work”. The same happened to Bob Gollihur’s link list, by the way. Really audacious.

xbass TV

The italian double bass website xbass.org recently has launched a video channel: xbass.tv
This channel feautures interviews with Ron Carter and Eugene Levinson, as well as live concerts with Edicson Ruiz.

Workshop with Mark Dresser at Salzburg/Austria

From July 14th to 19th Mark Dresser will be teaching his unique techniqes at JIMS. JIMS is a high-level  summer academy with focus on avantgarde and new music. www.jims.at
Dresser took part in the Los Angeles avant-garde jazz scene of the early 70’s.  He has composed chamber music, music for silent film, and solo music. In 2003 he was nominated for the Grammy and today he’s is a lecturer at the faculty of University of California, San Diego. A chapter on his extended techniques for contrabass, “A Personal Pedogogy”, appears in the book ARCANA.

Workshop with François Rabbath at David Gage

The Spring 2008 Workshop Series at David Gage String Instruments continues with Francois Rabbath. He will take questions and will discuss aspects of his playing and musical concept as part of the event. David Gage String Instruments and Francois Rabbath will present this Workshop one night only at David Gage String Instruments, 36 Walker Street, New York, NY. Tickets are priced at $20.00, $15.00 for students and seniors.
Mike’s Master Classes will be streaming every minute of  this Workshop. This interactive live online workshop format allows access to master musicians and creates an environment where musicians can network with one another anywhere with a computer and a high-speed internet connection.

Bass Professor for Berlin University of Arts

In the Faculty of Music at the University of the Arts Berlin the following position for the Jazz Institute Berlin (JIB) is to be filled: Professor at an Academy of the Arts – Salary Group W2 –

Subject: ”Bass/Ensemble direction”

Teaching commitment: 18 hours per teaching week during the semester
Time of appointment: soon                Reference: 3/267/08

The JIB is an institution supported jointly by the University of the Arts Berlin and the Academy of Music ”Hanns Eisler” Berlin.

Description: We are seeking an outstanding artist with an international reputation who performs regularly in the jazz scene and is therefore able to guarantee the practical relevance of the students’ education.  The successful candidate should have experience of teaching at academic level and be willing to work autonomously in the academic administration of the JIB.
Qualifications: Outstanding artistic achievements and pedagogical talent.
Applications with supporting documents and quoting the reference number should be submitted by 31.03.08 to the Universität der Künste Berlin – ZSD 1 -, Postfach 12 05 44, 10595 Berlin.